Southwest Wall, Ware, Malcolm, and Garner, 16722 Hale, Irvine Lewis Baltz 1974 |
Lewis Baltz is considered a pioneer and his work; key examples of the New Topographic movement. His work is very much a reaction towards the established popular landscape photography in America of that period and by presenting 'man-altered landscapes' in a particularly bold and stark manner, it greatly contrasts the typically romanticist style previously used. Romanticisation was a style in which the more conventional photographers used to depict the American landscapes, however, modernist photographers such as Baltz intended to subvert the stereotypical and instead, depicted brutal landscapes. An indefinite realism is prominent in such work; a style in which I aspire to follow and experiment with.
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